Sarah Harte: It's nobody's idea of a good time, but divorce is a fact of life

Sarah Harte on divorce stigma, Ireland’s post-Catholic identity, and Maria Steen’s conservative voice in the presidential debate

Allen Leech as Tom Branson and
Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary in the latest ‘Downton Abbey’ film.

THINGS change, and we must change with them. So says a character in the new Downton Abbey movie.

Spoiler alert: Lady Mary is getting divorced and, in the first part of the film, she is socially shunned as a result.